R-bomb

English Alternative forms en r-bomb R bomb Etymology 1 en read + en bomb. Verb en slang neologism transitive To leave someone's text message on read without replying. en leave someone on read en 3 November 2010 victoriapand 25745315355 Being r-bombed is roughhh en Alfred R. Taylor The Write Way to Get a Girlfriend 2015 53 https://archive.org/details/writewaytogetgir0000alfr/page/53/mode/1up 9781482355925 "Joe," Juan said. "You been r-bombing me." ¶ He turned around and faced Juan. ¶ "Not me," he said. "Dad's got my phone. Wants to know what I'm into." en Azzura Lalani Hatfishing, cuffing and R-bombs: The new dating lingo w:Toronto Star https://web.archive.org/web/20240516041011/https://www.thestar.com/life/relationships/hatfishing-cuffing-and-r-bombs-the-new-dating-lingo/article_fab197c4-4491-5509-82ea-227064db748b.html Toronto, Ont. w:Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. 5 September 2017 0319-0781 1081127642 When you leave a message as "read," but you don't reply, you've just R-bombed someone, and that's not very nice. en Holly Cabrera Don't show me the (read) receipts w:The McGill Tribune https://web.archive.org/web/20240516041522/https://www.thetribune.ca/opinion/dont-show-me-the-read-receipts-02132018/ 13 February 2018 Certainly, an advantage to activating read receipts is that they hold us accountable to not only responding, but doing so in a timely fashion. While Apple has made activating them optional, platforms such as Facebook Messenger and Snapchat don't offer smartphone users the luxury of choosing blissful ignorance. Instead, we must confront the fact that our presumably busy texting partner did indeed "R-bomb" us. Olivia Petter R-bombing: The new dating trend you may have already experienced https://web.archive.org/web/20231020171849/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/r-bombing-dating-trend-explained-not-replying-message-ignore-single-a8366991.html 24 May 2018 Whatever their line, Preece explains that a persistent R-bomber is typically disinterested in the person they're R-bombing but is simply too afraid or immature to admit it. en Ellen Scott R-bombing is the new dating term you've likely already put up with Metro https://web.archive.org/web/20221108231948/https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/26/r-bombing-new-dating-term-likely-already-put-7580316/ London w:DMG Media 26 May 2018 1469-6215 225917520 If you've ever seen those blue ticks on Whatsapp with no response, and become increasingly irate, you've been R-bombed. Cat Rodie You're definitely a victim of R-bombing and you don't even know it https://web.archive.org/web/20230406212113/https://nypost.com/2018/07/31/youre-definitely-a-victim-of-r-bombing-and-you-dont-even-know-it/ 31 July 2018 Jocelyn Brewer is a psychologist and digital nutritionist with a special interest in the way human behavior and technology intersect. She says that people who R-bomb are likely to lack basic communication skills. en 4 February 2021 JeremySumook 1357363972660473856 https://web.archive.org/web/20210204162515/https://twitter.com/JeremySumook/status/1357363972660473856 4 February 2021 tfw ur classmates reads your message and all 94 of them r-bomb it en 2022-06-04 NipNipNipNipNipDip uwo v52aq1 Are grades finalized? https://web.archive.org/web/20220605005512/https://www.reddit.com/r/uwo/comments/v52aq1/are_grades_finalized/ I haven't heard back from a prof on a paper, I've appealed, I've sent too many emails to feel comfortable messaging them againandagain and again. I wanted to know if grades are finalized, hoping that the professor was still looking at my appeal, or if I just got R bombed by a professor at university. Usage notes The term briefly received media attention around early 2018 but has since faded into relative obscurity. Related terms en R-bombing<qq:noun> Etymology 2 Abbreviations. Noun Any of various shocking or offensive words starting with the letter R. en Alex Coleman Little Black Everything Baldoyle; Dublin Poolbeg 2009 123 https://archive.org/details/littleblackevery0000cole/page/123/mode/1up 9781842233535 The thirty minutes between her dropping the R-bomb [i.e., reproduction] and the bell for the end of the lesson dragged by with glacial slowness. She might as well not have been there, she felt, for all the attention that was paid. en 2010 Ralph Keyes Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms New York Little, Brown and Company 212 https://archive.org/details/euphemaniaourlov0000keye/page/212/mode/1up When White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said a group of liberal activists were "fucking retarded," he was roundly condemned for dropping an R-bomb that way. en w:Molly Secours (article title) w:HuffPost https://web.archive.org/web/20231130091834/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cancer-john-mayer-and-ple_b_462217 17 April 2010 Cancer, John Mayer and "Please Don't Call Me Racist": Diffusing the R-Bomb en Hagen Engler Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren't Black Johannesburg MFBooks Joburg 2013 19 https://archive.org/details/marryingblackgir0000engl/page/19/mode/1up 9781920601287 Of course, one is in a state of constant improvement. A state of Racist Rehab, if you will. When things get messy on Facebook, and a bunch of us racists start dropping R-bombs on each other, I like to take the moral high ground and say, "I know. I'm also a racist, but I'm in recovery." In fact, it's hard to be anything else, having been raised in a country where race is the currency of any kind of success, where the class oppression common worldwide is so closely grafted to skin colour. en w:Sue Perkins Spectacles: A Memoir London Michael Joseph 2015 42 https://archive.org/details/spectacles0000perk/page/42/mode/1up 9781405918541 Yep, just to reinforce the point, she'd dropped the R-bomb. Anyone who was a child during the 1970s understands the knee-jerk horror created by the mere mention of rabies. Usage notes Someone is typically said to "drop the R-bomb". Etymology 3 en relativistic + en bomb. Noun en sci-fi A relativistic kinetic weapon. en SpaceMarine93 StarDestroyer.Net BBS "The Killing Star" - R-bombs and interstellar genocide 5 June 2013 https://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=158707 https://web.archive.org/web/20260116180043/http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=158707 16 January 2026 1 September 2026 Suddenly, without warning, a massive swarm of relativistic kill vehicles, or R-bombs, suddenly emerged from interstellar space and systematically impacted on Earth and every Human settlements across the Solar System. In one, single decisive attack, most of Humanity was destroyed, and the rest of the book follows the survivors hiding across the Solar System in a bleak, desperate struggle for survival as the spaceships from the alien civilization that launched the missiles move in to finish the job, all the while trying to figure out WHY the aliens would pull such a horrific act of genocide on them. en Isaac Kuo Atomic Rockets Exotic Weapons https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic.php https://web.archive.org/web/20260830102936/https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic.php 30 August 2026 31 August 2026 Mr. Paterson is optimizing a more plausible scenario. His "poor man's R-bomb" is constrained by a particular exhaust velocity, and the question is how to squeeze the maximum kinetic energy into the payload. I'm not sure whether his analysis is correct, but it seems plausible.The optimum energy efficiency would actually be reached at an terminal velocity equal to the exhaust velocity. But that doesn't seem to be the objective of the poor man's R-bomb. The poor man's R-bomb seems to be limited by loaded mass rather than energy budget. You don't use any sacrificial propellant at all, you just use pure fuel at the maximum exhaust velocity you can manage all the way. See also en n-bomb f-bomb r-word en Relativity Weapons